Call to Discipleship

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”

Mark 1:17

The second words that were spoken by Jesus in the book of Mark, as we read in today’s verse, were a call to discipleship, spoken to Simon (Peter) and his brother Andrew. Peter and Andrew were just normal fishermen trying to make an honest living by catching fish and yet there was something about Jesus that would cause them to leave behind everything for which they had worked all of their lives in order to follow Jesus. Well, you know the rest of the story, they became 2 of the first 12 apostles who would be the first great evangelists of all time and would win many people to Christ. Don’t you know that you are God’s disciple today if you have indeed accepted Him as your Lord and Savior? You are His hands and feet and the vehicle that He wants to use in order to show the rest of the world who don’t know Him yet that he is real and that he is alive and that he died a horrible death on a cross in order to reconcile them with the God of this world who created them for a love relationship with Him that has no boundaries and that will last for all eternity. Today, God is calling you to be a fisher of men. He wants you to follow Him so closely that His love would become such a huge part of who you are that it would overflow from your heart onto a world that is in desperate need of the unconditional, restoring and healing love of Jesus that will help them find what their heart has been longing for. Be a fisher of men today; ask God to use you in the lives of other people and just watch what He will do through a heart that longs to serve and live for Him!

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